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Charles Stross _ Halting State
But you're more at home with SQL than socialization: Innuendo wasn't a language they taught in CS lab.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
You're a grown-up, these days. You don't wear a kamikaze pilot's rising sun headband and a tee-shirt that screams DEBUG THIS! and you don't spend your weekends competing in extreme programming slams at a windy campsite near Frankfurt, but it's generally difficult for you to use any machine that doesn't have at least one compiler installed: In fact, you had to stick Python on your phone before you even opened its address book because not being able to brainwash it left you feeling handicapped, like you were a passenger instead of a pilot. In another age you would have been a railway mechanic or a grease monkey crawling over the spark plugs of a DC-3. This is what you are, and the sad fact is, they can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
Non-euclidian sofa
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
Edinburgh has history the way cats have bad breath.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
So you open your mouth and listen to yourself say, "I want eight thousand a day. Plus expenses." This is the polite, industry-standard way of saying "piss off, I'm not interested." You did the math over your morning coffee: You want to earn 100K a year, what with those bonuses you've been pulling on top of your salary. {Besides, a euro doesn't buy what it used to.} There are 250 working days in a year, and a contractor works for roughly 40 per cent of the time, so you need to charge yourself out at 2.5 times your payroll rate, or 1000 a day in order to meet your target. Not interested in the job? Pitch unrealistically high. You never know… "Done," says Mr. Pin-Stripe, staring at you expressionlessly. And it is at that point that you realize you are well and truly fucked.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
There's a faint popping noise, and the entire wall of the incident room shifts to the colour of the night sky above a Japanese city.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
..."The glass isn't half-empty or half-full. What you're looking at is half a pint of depreciable assets sitting in a pint of capital infrastructure that can be amortized over two accounting periods."..."Is there an engineering one?"..."Yes! It's quite simple: That's half a pint, all that's wrong is the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
When a customer clicks through the license conditions to play the game, they're agreeing to add their phone as a node in a distributed server. More players equal more servers-not for themselves, I might add, we never run a server node for any given game on the same host as a client for that game, that would be asking for trouble-but at the back end, we're in the processor arbitrage market. The game programmers' biggest problems are maintaining causality and object coherency while minimizing network latency-sorry,
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
She turns and stalks off in search of other minions to intimidate, leaving you flexing your fingers and trying to decide whether you want to strangle her or go down on your knees and beg for lessons.
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…
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Charles Stross _ Halting State
They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.
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